6 years ago Does an employee accrue annual leave when taking long service leave? During the 4 months of being on LSL, does additional annual leave still accrue when his last working day was at end of October 2018?
6 years ago Can we reduce a full-time employee’s hours? Can we reduce an employee's hours by half a day?
6 years ago How do we help an employee who is suffering with depression and anxiety? What are our rights/obligations when managing him within the business, especially regarding redundancy?
6 years ago Can we reinstate full-time work for a stressed employee? Are there any legal or underlying issues with increasing her days again?
7 years ago Maximum redundancy pay If we are going to make an employee redundant, is there a threshold/maximum amount that we need to pay when the employee's salary is over a certain level?
7 years ago Can an employee waive their salary to accrue annual leave? We approved an employee to go into negative annual leave. They would like to make up the leave by working additional hours. Is this allowed?
7 years ago Can we retrench an employee on parental leave? What are our obligations given we are a small business with fewer than 15 employees?
7 years ago Can we get our money back from an overpaid worker? Can we now request that this excess payment be deducted from her annual leave entitlement or her long service leave entitlement?
7 years ago Can we make our full-time employee casual? Under what circumstances is it allowable to change an employee from full-time to casual? Also, how would this affect the employee’s leave entitlements?
7 years ago Can we delay payment to employees when they submit their timesheets late? Can we delay payment to employees who do not lodge their timesheet by the payroll deadline until the next pay run (potentially a fortnight later)?
7 years ago Can we dismiss an employee for taking excessive sick leave? Can we dismiss him for not fulfilling his expected duties due to the amount of sick leave he is taking?
7 years ago Do we have an obligation to find out if an employee has a mental illness? What can we do if during conversations about performance issues, the employee becomes extremely upset?
7 years ago Worker threatens to take sickies if holidays are knocked back What recourse do we have for employees who take the leave despite the request not suiting the business or being approved?
7 years ago Announcing redundancy – What comes first, the meeting or the email? I'd like to know the right process for making someone's position redundant.
7 years ago Can charity begin at work? Employees sometimes ask us if they can transfer their personal leave to another employee who may be suffering from hardship. What would the payroll/legal repercussions be if we did this?
